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Opinion: Edward Snowden, Isreali surveillance contract and false analogy
by Adeolu Ademoyo No one can deny the evil nature of terrorism of any type. But the critics of the American state have raised the question of legality and ethics.…
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Opinion: Why I want to grow to be like Tony Anenih
by Ose Oyamendan They call him Mr. Fix-it. And, boy – did he fix that birthday! If I have a birthday like that, I’m sending a picture to TIME magazine…
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Opinion: When pornography takes over entertainment in Nigeria
by Chinedu Anarado With aggressive advocacy for homosexuality, we are inching closer every day to a situation where it is cool to be gay and lesbian, run about naked and…
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Femi Falana: The Lagos deportation and the law
by Femi Falana Finally, since the deporting state governments have no immigration officials to police their borders there is no assurance that the deportees will not find their way back…
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Opinion: The ‘ABSU’ rape saga and the rest of us
by Tajomavwo Fejiro Joy However, while the tale was still awash on every lip, the society was the first pawn to be raised on this chess board. The evil act…
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Opinion: The disingenuity of Nigerian banks
by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu In my mind, there is no justification for the interest rates charged by Nigerian banks. For almost two years, the CBN, as a result of the expansionary…
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Kayode Ogundamisi: #ABSU rape – And we, the mob moved on
by Kayode Ogundamisi While a victim lives with bone crushing injustice thoroughly unaffected by righteous intentions the #hashtag mob has moved to the next sexy hashtag. No closure. No ability…
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Opinion: APC – How to be a distinct alternative
by Ado Umar Muhammed Leaders of APC will do well to prove to all that they are different from the PDP, that they are up to the task of facing…
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Opinion: Security consciousness in the face of terrorism
by Ola Lookman In a statement issued by spokesperson of Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano, it said that “the disaster could have been avoided if citizens maintain vigilance to…
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Opinion: But what else does Buhari want?
by Adewale Maja-Pearce Buhari is merely one of the many distractions we allow ourselves in the hope (always hope) that things will somehow get better without our own volition. God…
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Demola Rewaju: Men need to fight but not often… says the thug in me
by Demola Rewaju That’s the test of manhood: the test to determine if you can rein in your strength in the face of provocation. I think some women like to…
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Femi Aribisala: Running away from God’s prophecies
by Femi Aribisala When God gives a prophecy, he does not depend on man to fulfil it. He fulfils it himself. But when God gives us a vision and tells…
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FFK will fail like others before him: A rejoinder to Femi Fani-Kayode’s ‘Lagos, the Igbos and the servants of truth’
by Sam Eleanya One thing is certain. FFK will fail. In this venture. To divide another generation of Nigerians the same way his generation was divided – and so has become…
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Henry Okelue: 8 things to ponder as 2015 draws near
by Henry Okelue Fellow Nigerians... You are innately smart. Let politicians tell us how they will improve our lives when we vote them in, not how Okoro is a threat…
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Opinion: The bitter truth about Femi Fani-Kayode
by Obi Nwakanma Lagos belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it,…
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Opinion: That lonely world of our aged
by Muyiwa Adetiba Old age needs not be an albatross. It should actually be something to look forward to. After all, we all plan on growing old with grace. But…
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Opinion: APC – Still waiting for the Messiah
by Muheez Busari The nation needs no regional party, myopic characters, mendicants foraging for daily bread, usurpers and vendetta boys brigade, old men parading as youth leaders, intellectually bankrupt messiah,…
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Hip, hip, hurraY! #TeamRED lets its hair down for the 3rd anniversary of Y! (PHOTOS)
by Oge Okonkwo Cutting the anniversary cake It was a fun-filled event at the third anniversary of YNaija.com, the internet newspaper for young Nigerians which held on Friday, August 9,…
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Tunde Fagbenle: Sobering thoughts on the mystery of reincarnation
by Tunde Fagbenle More frightening, with Nigeria in its perpetual state of stagnation, if not regression, could we be having the wrong kind of mad leaders reincarnating in our midst…
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Opinion: Of Femi Fani-Kayode and his gospel of hate
by Nnaemeka Meribe A million Fani-Kayodes cannot create a gulf between us. Lagos and the Yoruba need people from other parts of Nigeria just as others need Lagos and the…
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Simon Kolawole: Winning the war against terror
by Simon Kolawole How can we contain this religious hate in Nigeria in the face of the Boko Haram insurgency? How can we make sure it doesn’t spread to more…
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Opinion: An ’emerging’ Nigeria and the culture of continuity
by Umar T.H The need to re-direct human capital to drive the country’s industrial take-off is clear; there can be no transformation without industrialization South Korea produces 70% of the…
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Opinion: ‘ABSU’ rape hysteria – We were wrong after all
by Habeeb Kolade The continual defective approaches to issues that border our sentimentalism seem to be the bane and have thus destroyed our sense of judgement and subsequently affected our…
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Pius Adesanmi: Do not disturb – Intelligent Nigerians in conversation
by Pius Adesanmi "My brother, you are spot on. We must not allow tribalists to condemn our own. We must not let them obscure his sense of fairness. We must…
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Dele Momodu: The sermon from Chief Anthony Anenih
by Dele Momodu There are too many people in the PDP who are too set in their perfidious ways. If they would hearken to that sermon, the fire burning all…
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Nasir El-Rufai: Stunted potentials hinder our Nation’s growth
by Nasir El-Rufai The vision of that Obasanjo administration was to make this the last generation to merely speak of Nigeria’s potentials. We were determined to realize those potentials, confident…
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Elnathan John: New parties and free elections in 2015
by Elnathan John It is also encouraging seeing the names showing up on the APC train: IBB, Ahmed ‘13’ Yerima, Tom Ikimi, Femi Fani-Kayode. I like how APC is like…
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Opinion: Nigeria’s glittering Almajiri plan
by Garba Shehu The Almajiri education policy of the Jonathan administration is important, not because it is a pioneering effort. In Kano, I know of the past efforts of the…
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Olusegun Adeniyi: Just send them away
by Olusegun Adeniyi It is rather unfortunate that many otherwise respected people would always see ethnicity in every problem and that is why I hesitate to comment on this issue…
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Opinion: One child one tablet initiative – The challenges of change
by Adedeji Ologbenla Giving the laptops or tablets to every child is not a bad idea but of what direct and indirect impact does it have on the child’s mental…
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